Afrobarometer
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The Afrobarometer is a research project that measures public attitudes on economic, political, and social matters in sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] It is carried out through a partnership of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), and the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University.[3][4]
Afrobarometer results are based on face-to-face and house-to-house[5] interviews of individuals and are considered reliable and generalizable.[6] As of October 19, 2006, Afrobarometer data and publications had been cited 216 times.[7]
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[edit] Survey countries
As of January 2008, the project had conducted three main rounds of surveys, covering a total of 18 African countries, as well as a number of individual surveys.[8]
Round 1 surveys were conducted from July 1999 through June 2001 in 12 countries: 
Botswana, 
Ghana, 
Lesotho, 
Malawi, 
Mali, 
Namibia, 
Nigeria, 
South Africa, 
Tanzania, 
Uganda, 
Zambia, and 
Zimbabwe.
Round 2 surveys were carried out from May 2002 through October 2003 in 15 countries: the Round 1 countries (except Zimbabwe, which was surveyed in 2004) and 
Cape Verde, 
Kenya, 
Mozambique, and 
Senegal.
Round 3 surveys were conducted from March 2005 through February 2006 in 18 countries: the Round 1 and Round 2 countries and 
Benin and 
Madagascar.
Round 4 surveys are planned to take place from February to December 2008 in 20 countries: the Round 3 countries and 
Burkina Faso and 
Liberia.
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[edit] References
- ^ Bratton, Michael; Robert Brattes (2004). "What 'The People' Say About Reforms", in E. Gyimah-Boadi: Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 65. ISBN 978-15-8826-246-2. Retrieved on 2007-05-10. “... a large-scale, cross-national survey research project (the Afrobarometer) which is designed to systematically map mass attitudes toward democracy, markets, and civil society ...”
- ^ Bratton, Michael; Robert Mattes; and E. Gyimah-Boadi (2004). Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 53. ISBN 978-05-2160-291-4. Retrieved on 2007-05-10. “The Afrobarometer is a comparative series of national mass attitude surveys on democracy, markets, and civil society.”
- ^ Lewis, Peter M.; Michael Bratton (2004). "Nigeria: Understanding Attitudes Toward Democracy and Markets", in Lucie Colvin Phillips and Diery Seck: Fixing African Economies: Policy Research for Development. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 93. ISBN 15-8826-148-4. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Bratton, Michael; Robert Mattes (2004). "Support for Economic Reform? Popular Attitudes in South Africa", in Mats Lundahl: Globalization and the Southern African Economies. Sweden: Elanders Infologistics Väst, 88. ISBN 978-91-7106-532-2. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Timberg, Craig. "Support for Democracy Seen Falling in Africa", The Washington Post, 2006-05-25, p. A26. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Bratton, Mattes, and Gyimah-Boadi (2004), 54. “Data are gathered ... by teams of trained interviewers ... . Special care is taken to ensure the accurate and equivalent translation of concepts into local languages and to control the quality of data collected in the field. ... Afrobarometer results can be generalized to national populations within known levels of sampling error.”
- ^ Michigan State University (2006-12-07). "Bibliography of Scholarly & Scientific Citations to the Afrobarometer" (PDF). . Afrobarometer Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Afrobarometer Surveys. Afrobarometer. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
